A Letter from Jesus.
Here is something I wanted to share with you. There are probably several variations to this letter but this is the version that was given to me as part of a packet of inspirational stories and poems.
Dear Friend,
How are you? I just had to send a note to tell you how much I care about you. I saw you yesterday as you were talking with your friends. I waited all day hoping you would want to talk with me, too. I gave you a sunset to close your day and a cool breeze to rest you and I waited. You never came. It hurt me but I still love you because I am your friend.
I saw you sleeping last night and longed to touch your brow, so I spilled moonlight on your face and again I waited, wanting to rush down so we could talk. I have so many gifts for you! You awoke and rushed off to work. My tears were in the rain.
If you would only listen to me. I love you! I try to tell you in blue skies and in the quiet grass. I whisper it in leaves on the trees and breathe it in colors of flowers, shout it to you in the mountain streams, giving birds love songs to sing. I clothe you with warm sunshine and perfume the air with nature’s scents. My love for you is deeper than the ocean and bigger than the biggest need in your heart.
Ask me. Talk to me! Please don’t forget me! I have so much to share with you. I won’t hassle you any further. It is your decision. I have chosen you and I will wait. I love you!
Your Friend,
Jesus
Finnish and Tagalog versions available
Thanks to Susan of New York and all of her hard work making these versions of the Book of Mormon available we now have two more to add to the list. Finnish and Tagalog in PDF format. Please visit her site and leave her a thank you note. If you need or want other versions visit the international page. Feel free to pass along these Book of Mormons and this website link to all your family and friends.
Reorganized and updated blog
Hi, everyone!
Thanks for visiting. I did a few things to keep this blog fresh and updated. I separated the downloads and more page into an English only page and an LDS Library, D&C, and more page. I finally found a decent online file storage site at Dropbox. No ads of any kind, it is very fast to download files, and no problems at this time with uploading and downloading. You use a program on your computer that will automatically upload any changes to your file to your online file storage. All of my links on this blog use this service. So, if you find a download link that does not have a dropbox name in it please let me know. The international page has been reorganized and updated with new links found by commenters on this blog. If you need or want to shorten the download links use tinyurl .
I just found this interesting site that you can read the Book of Mormon side by side in various languages. Polyglot Book of Mormon
Thanks for visiting. It is my hope and prayer that these Book of Mormons in all of these languages are being sent to friends, families, and everyone else. The Lord wants the Book of Mormon to be known throughout the world and with these current technologies and versions we should be able to accomplish this very soon.
A couple of additions
I have a new version of the LDS Library now available. I cleaned up some links and took out the picture sections. It is still the executable e-book and it is only about 28 MB. When I have time I will include a library with the LDS art and make a few more changes. For Windows only. Download it here .
If anyone knows of a quick and easy way to make this library into a PDF e-book please let me know. There are hundreds of pages in HTML and I don’t have the time to create this e-book page by page. I am on a low budget so I am looking for some help on this.
There is a German audio Book of Mormon now available. Thanks, Andy, for this find. Here is the website .
Thanks, everyone, for visiting here. This has been a great success for me and the Lord. I have had this site up for over a year now and have had hundreds of downloads. It was and still is my hope that when I started this project that the Book of Mormon would be available electronically and be able to be sent to every corner of the Internet and the world. The Lord’s mission for His members was to have the Book of Mormon spread to every part of the world. I believe this has been accomplished through His missionaries and members and through the use of the Intenet. There is still a lot of work to do but the Lord will bless us with our every effort.
A few updates on this blog.
Hi, everyone!
First of all, I want to thank everyone who has visited this site and and made it a great success. I have made a few changes around this site. I found out last week that the file storage site that I have been using is no longer offering free file sharing as part of their basic service. So, I moved everything to mediafire.com. Hopefully, this will work out for a while. I went through all of my links and changed them to this new download site. If there is any problems please leave me a comment.
There are two more versions a couple of commenters have found. One is the Book of Mormon in Arabic available at LDScatalog.com . It is item number 30922102, and sells for $3.00 (US). Another place to buy one is at the BYU Bookstore. There is also an online Italian audio version found on their missionary site.
If anyone has any suggestions or ideas to improve this site or to find more ways to promote the Book of Mormon please let me know.
New free Book of Mormon website.
I am trying something new. I started a new website on a free, no ads hosting company. Nothing fancy. Just a basic HTML site. All downloads and files are on same site, so no off site downloading and viewing. The files are the same as on this site and in English only, at this time. There is also a Book of Mormon pictures page. I will keep this blogsite running for a while. If you have any problems with this new site please leave me a comment.
Thank you.
Glenn Beck’s conversion story.
Hi, everyone!
I know it’s been a while since I have posted anything on my blog. I haven’t really felt like writing much lately. I have been mostly commenting and visiting other blogs and I have had only 3 days off in 2 months. I found this video on Rusty’s blog, www.ongofu.wordpress.com. I haven’t listen to Glenn Beck too much but I know he is a very popular talk show host. I have heard that he was a Mormon but after listening to his story I was reminded of my own conversion story and how much this Church has changed my life.
I have been a member for about 12 years now. Before I married and settled down here in Oklahoma I had a very bad case of wanderlust. And even a little bit after when we were looking for a great place to settle down. I grew up a military brat so I moved around quite a bit. My family is from Massachusetts and the New England area and I basically grew up in New England. The only time I heard about the LDS Church is from history books and the occassional tv spot on cults in America. (Yes, I did see the Godmakers at one point. I didn’t understand it and didn’t know why everyone loved it.) My dad’s side was Roman Catholic and my mom’s side is Protestant. My family only went to church on the holidays and were not a Bible reading, pray always family. Nevertheless, my parents wanted me to go to experience going to church and religion in general. So, I went to catechism classes when I was 8 so that I can receive my first communion in the Catholic Church. It was a great experience from what I remember. Then at one point my dad decided to sell Amway products and this included associating with born-again Christians. So, my family accepted Christ in our lives and was baptized. We were in upstate New York at this time. My dad tried to stay in the New England area when he was in the Air Force to be closer to our family. We went to church for a while but it didn’t last long.We moved when I was 13 to California and attended a church there. My teenage years are a blur to me. Let’s just say they weren’t my best years. All through my younger years I read the Bible very often and one of my favorite movies was the creation story from the 60’s. I have had a life long interest in religion and spirituality. I wanted to why people believed in what they believed in. This led me to search for all the common elements in all faiths around the world. I told a friend of mine that I wanted the church that Christ started not what eveyone thinks what His church is. Thousands of different churches around the world and they all had the same basic elements of worshiping God, spirituality, doctrine. And yet no one could agree on any one point. I didn’t understand and still don’t why there are heated debates over certain points of doctrine. Who is God and what is He like? Is there one God or 3? Why are Christians of different faiths fighting each other for power and control? I could see no unity anywhere between the different faiths. I attended a few when I was in my twenties but they could not satisfy my answers. In 1996, I went to work at Zion National Park. Before I went I was working at Sea World in San Diego and I decided to go back to the national parks for work. I got tired of city living and wanted to go back to the mountains. I used to work at Yosemite NP and could have gone back there but I wanted to try another park. Before I called Zion and Yosemite I asked God where do you want me to go and I told Him that who ever gave me the best interview that is where I would go. So, I went to Zion NP in Utah. Before I went I decided to investigate the Mormons and planned to stay in St George for 2 days before starting work. I love history and so on my first day I went to Brigham Young’s home and a couple of other places. I still wasn’t sure about the church and so I was careful not to be taken in by any conversation I had with the workers there. I filled out a missionary card not expecting anything. The next day in the late afternoon I decided to visit the St George Temple thinking I could get a good feel for these people. What I got was a tour of the faith of the church and a little bit of temple history. It was not was I was looking for nor ready for yet. I wanted to do this on my own time. But at the end of tour I was talking to the Elder and told him that I had a theory that the Phoenicians came here and settled America. At this point I new nothing about the Book of Mormon nor was exposed to anything in the LDS Church other than this tour. The Elder said come with me and he took me to a small room a started a video. I was shocked and amazed at what I saw. It was a video of Lehi and his family coming to the New World and started a new civilization, almost exactly my theory that I held on to for many years. After the video, I asked the Elder if I could have a Book of Mormon and at first he was reluctant because most people would just shelve it. He gave me one anyway and that night I started reading and the rest is history. That night changed my life. Since I was familiar with New York and New England history I knew that Joseph Smith could not just create a new religion or write a fictional story like some claim that the Book of Mormon is. I also filled out another missionary card while I was there not expecting anything. As I read the Book of Mormon throughout the next few months while I was working at Zion I was making connections with what ancient history I knew. Then in February when I was watching tv someone told me that I had some visitors in the hotel lobby. I couldn’t think who they were so I went. It was 3 elder’s from the LDS Church. They told me they got a missionary card and thought they would come and visit. We stood there in the lobby for over an hour as I poured out what I have learned from reading the Book of Mormon. We scheduled the missionary lessons over the next couple of months. Because the missionaries lived so far away we had to make special arrangments for a good time and place to teach me these lessons. At one point, I took them out to a picnic table early in the morning quite a ways from the main hotel area. That was the lesson about the fruits of the Spirit and they told me after that it was as if I was prepared all my life for this lesson and for joining this Church. I never read anything from the Church and yet when they asked me a question I answered it and when I looked it up in the lesson book it was almost the same words that I said. I was baptized on April 21, 1996 by these missionary elders. The next few years were kind of rough for a new member until I met my wife and we eventually settled down here in Oklahoma. My life has been great since I married and I would not know what my life would be without her and the Church in my life. I have a great job and a home that I recently bought in a small town. We don’t have kids but have 2 puppies, an older Tibetan Spanial and a 3-legged cat named Willy. I am virtually debt free – I owe no one except the car, home, and student loans. I am able to pay for everything in cash and I am able to support wife. For a long time I never thought that I would get this far and I owe it to my Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. I know that I don’t deserve their love and patience, I can be very rebellious and stubborn at times, but they know my heart and my life and I know they have a special mission for my life to do their work. Thanks everyone for visiting my website and downloading the Book of Mormon and other materials on this site. It is my hope that these Books of Mormon will be sent out throughout the world, even in the most remote places and that everyone who reads it will experience the same joy and happiness that I did when I first read this special book. This is my testimony. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
General Conference online now.
For those who are not aware of it, the General Conference is now online. You can read, watch, or listen in various languages.
General Conference Weekend
It is that time of year again for LDS members. This weekend, April 5 and 6, is the spring weekend for the biannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The members will be sustaining the First Presidency which will be Presidents Thomas S. Monson, Henry B. Eyering, and Dieter F. Uchtdorf.
From the main Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints website:
The 178th Annual General Conference of the Church will convene in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday and Sunday, April 5-6, 2008. The Saturday general sessions will be held at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.; Sunday sessions will be held at 9:30 a.m. (which includes Music and the Spoken Word) and 2:00 p.m. The general priesthood meeting will be held in the Conference Center on Saturday, April 5, at 6:00 p.m.
Video and audio streaming in various languages
If you are not a member of the LDS Church this will be a great way to learn more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
LDS Church members: Don’t forget to bring a friend or family member to a Conference broadcast and introduce them to the Church.
Have a great weekend!
